View Template Overview

A view template is a collection of view properties, such as view scale, discipline, detail level, and visibility settings, that are common for a view type (such as plan or elevation). You specify the value for each property in the template. You can exclude properties from a view template. Excluded properties do not require a value and are not overridden when you apply a view template.

You can use view templates to:

• Apply a defined set of view properties to a specific view. For example, if you have a plan view that shows a furniture layout, you can create a view template that has the view properties you require for this type of plan view. If you create other plan views that require the same properties as the furniture plan, you can apply the same view template.
• Standardize the look of your project views before you print or export a view or a project. To do this, you define a default view template that you can then apply to multiple views simultaneously.

Project views and view templates are not linked. When a template changes, all views created from that template do not automatically update. You can reapply the modified template, which overrides previous view property settings.